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Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory. In recent years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field. These authors include Robert Fogelin, Susan Haack, Jaakko Hintikka (with Gabriel Sandu), Bipin Indurkhya and Eva Kittay (with Eric Steinhart). Their stance is in the main constructive rather than critical; but frequent comparisons of different views further facilitate the reader's overview. In the other contributions, metaphor is related to the problems of visual representation (Noël Carroll), to the open class test (Avishai Margalit and Naomi Goldblum) as well as to Wittgenstein's idea of `a way of life' (E.M. Zemach).

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Philosophy of language

• Full title: Aspects of Metaphor
• Author: Jaakko Hintikka
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9789048143856
• ISBN: 9048143853
• ID: 05322331
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 417 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2010

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